Notes

Use Hassaku 1.3a and the Ssssslippery Style Positive Embedding alongside this to get the same results as I did in the example gallery. Hassaku is a nice, clean anime checkpoint with good prompt adherence and anatomy details, and the embedding contains some basic Illustrious quality tags plus some other tags like "semi-realistic" and "western comics" that help push results toward 2.5d semi-realism.

After using this for a while on multiple checkpoints, I've concluded that it functions best as a way to push checkpoints that are biased toward 2d anime images (think Hassaku, WAI, etc) in the 2.5d semi-realistic direction. It is not necessary when using checkpoints that naturally produce a semi-realistic output (think illustrij, illustmix, etc).

It does tend to produce same-y faces, but luckily it plays nicely with other Loras. When used in combination with other Loras you can create images with more stylized anatomy, proportions, or facial characteristics that still end up looking fairly realistic. Typically I get the best results when weighting Ssssslippery Style at 1 and any additional Loras at 0.5. I've been able to produce stable results with up to 3 additional style Loras, though the weighting does become much more difficult to balance the more you add (as I'm sure you all know).

Credit

This was very kindly created for me by n_Arno, it's a merge of one of their LoRAs and another LoRA that I use frequently. All credit to the original creators of both LoRAs.

Best used with this embedding n_Arno also created for me.

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